1/5 Brycen-Man and Zoroark Showcase - Pokémon Masters EX

I don’t care that his banner already ended, I’ve been waiting for this unit so I’m still gonna make a showcase on him!
Brycen-Man is very good. At 1/5, he only really has one game plan, but man is he good at it. Brycen-Man is pretty much a Dark Type enabler, specifically on the special spectrum. He’s especially helpful with Snarl users and considering he has two Dark rebuffs, he pretty much creates a Dark Zone with the field effect.
His passives give him solid versatility too. His first sync doubling the targets debuffs gives him solid versatility. Plus, having guaranteed FMN after hitting an opponent with rebuff is very nice and frees up the move gauge a lot (unless you miss, which can be somewhat difficult to recover from).
His special lucky skill, Discombobulate 4, is also very nice and is especially good when paired with his innate On a Roll 2 passive. 2/5+ gives him some nice niches and improves his damage, but if you just want him to be a Dark type enabler, he can definitely be fine staying at 1/5. Overall, a very good and very fun unit who’s definitely a big buff for Dark types! Enjoy!
Timestamps to battles, grids and lucky skills:
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0:00 Soon as the notif popped up, I knew what was going to happen.
0:53 Solo Damage Dealing
Brycen-Man is a Dark Type enabler, but he can still do solid damage by himself. Brycen-Man’s innate nuke is Smarty-Pants, which is slightly difficult to set up since this stage isn’t kind to Special damage dealers (who are Brycen-Man’s specialty). Plus, Cyrus’s debuffs being complete RNG didn’t help much either. Even with all that, along his Sp. Atk only at +4, he did some pretty solid damage imo.
4:02 Zoroark Gaming
One of Brycen-Man’s best partners is fellow Zoroark user Summer N, since both there kits have a lot of similarities to each other. Plus, Brycen-Man’s rebuffs + Dark Zone ensure N (or really any Dark type) hits like a dump truck. Now I just need to get SC Irida for a triple Zoroark run.
6:44 Enabling Physical Dark Types
Brycen-Man mainly wants to help Special Dark types, but his rebuffs can help Physical units too. Sidney’s cheap and less demanding than Royal, so I figured he’d be best to use here.
9:46 Off-Type Enabling
NC Marnie’s reign of terror may not be as strong as it once was, but Brycen-Man will definitely help her Off-Type stages even better than she did before! Semi-annoying clear since I had to reset to ensure I got hit by Swift once to keep Penny’s regen from deactivating Mind over Matter.
12:53 Karen Gaming
Brycen-Man complements kit very well, since her Overpower and Devastipn very easily along with Sp. Def debuffs. Since his Dark rebuffs basically act as a Dark Zine, this duo can lead to a free No WTZ parameter too. Plus, he gets Gobsmack from 2/5 onwards, enabling Karen’s Foul Fighting.
(Side Note: Ball Guy and Karen are a very underrated duo imo, since he easily helps Karen activate Dirty Fighting and hastens her crit buffs.)
15:54 Non-Dark Enabling
This is mainly for Rally and LG strategy. Brycen-Man’s debuffs are universally good for any special units that have Overpower and/or Devastaion, like Alder or Diantha. Since Fairy Stadium is up rn, I decided to show this idea with SS Wally. Plus I get to show off his broken EX Role off too (-6 countdown after Sync should not be aloud bro!)
19:02 Enabling “Honorary” Dark types
Thought it’d be fun to also show Brycen-Man helping non-Dark type Dark damage dealers (units like Lysandre and Nessa). I didn’t think Lysandre would do as much damage as he did, but I guess that’s the power of having 4 move multipliers.
22:05 Cresselia 2v1
2/5+ Brycen-Man can probably duo with much weaker Haze or Snatch users, but since mines 1/5 I had to use my best Cresselia slayer, aka Lodge Gladion. Also had to give him Lithe to make sure Brycen-Man FMN didn’t get interrupted by paralysis.
I did end up having to use both rebuffs on Bar 1, since using it on Bar 2 onwards lowers Brycen-Man’s Sp. Atk (even his stat shield in effect btw!). I also brute forced through Bar 1, to not waste Gladion’s regen or items to make the gauge less constraining since it gets really bad after Brycen-Man loses his FMN.
26:35 General Gauntlet Example
Friendly reminder that I suck at Gauntlet, so if there’s a better support to use please don’t yell at me. Brycen-Man is a solid Uxie computer since his rebuff counts towards disabling Uxie’s Acute Senses and it never gets rid of it with its passives. 1/5 Brycen-Man struggles through Bar 1 though, so I brought Marnie to provide easy Paralysis + Brycen-Man’s rebuffs helped to buff her Power Trip too.
30:54 PokéStars Squad
It’d feel wrong to make a showcase on this unit and not use the Unova NCs when I’ve got them both. Admittedly, this was mostly Nate doing high damage and Rosa sleep chaining, but it’s still cool team theme wise. Plus, Brycen-Man’s FMN helped with what probably would’ve been some otherwise rough gauge.
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[@unclegrimsley839]

Man, so many partners for Grimsley

[@rezhafauzi5428]

I got him at first tiered with 300 paid (the only good Luck from this Crappy month)
Ngl Brycen-man is the perfect Tech for Karen Houndoom, might consider to candy him later.

[@resurrekt7114]

No way two Brycen in 1 multi?!

[@oshawottmasters6435]

IKR?! That was crazy!